I only wish I was making that up.
Siobhán Brett
Opinion editor
Maine Voices: January lays bare the greatest conspiracy of them all
Sure, the month is drawing to a close. But we can’t get complacent.
Commentary: Let’s let Maine parents decide how to spend on education
Arizona is leading the way with a voucher-style universal school choice program. Maine can do the same.
Our View: At least one of the answers is blowing in the wind
A new bill that promises to stimulate the development of offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine strikes all the right notes.
Clarence Page: How your gas stove was drafted into the culture wars
The rumor was simply too tantalizing to be encumbered by anything as quaint and tiresome as facts.
Our View: Welcome Corps a welcome development
The new State Department program should help us to maximize our most precious resource: goodwill.
Maine Voices: We need more grid capacity – and we need it now
Grid-enhancing technologies are already in place and proven in regional transmission systems across the U.S. and Europe. Maine must be next.
Maine Voices: Is the Doomsday Clock about to move closer to midnight?
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ clock was first set at the start of the Cold War. On Tuesday, we’ll find out how much closer the world is to self-destruction in 2023.
Another View: 2022 brought more heat and pollution. We’re still careening toward climate disaster.
House Republicans spent some of their first several days in power going ballistic over a nonexistent ban on gas stoves. If that is any indication of what’s to come, they will try to obstruct climate action instead of acting to protect the American people.
Our View: Portland diocese displays a brazen lack of empathy
Attempts to block legal recourse for people in pain and anguish amount to retraumatizing secondary abuse.